Facebook, Microsoft Steady Tech Stocks Amid Earnings Deluge

Facebook, Microsoft Steady Tech Stocks Amid Earnings Deluge. By … Another dose of results arrives today from megacap technology companies Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Google parent Alphabet Inc. … Some of the other big techcompanies reporting Wednesday struck a more somber tone.

After decades of unbridled enthusiasm – bordering on addiction – about all things digital, the public may be losing trust in technology. Online information isn’t reliable, whether it appears in the form of news, search results or user reviews. Social media, in particular, is vulnerable to manipulation by hackers …

Rautanen noted that Nokia’s profits were boosted by a one-off patent payment of 210 million euros, and the company said its technology licensing business would prop up its profits with sales growth around 10 percent through 2020. While about 90 percent of the company’s sales come from network …

There’s a lot going on at Samsung Electronics Co. Its OLED screens are the hippest new thing in displays, its memory products are in hot demand, and its smartphones enjoy continued consumer support. But as everyone else slices and dices each of Samsung’s business units to divine the past, present and …

But last month China’s Bitmain Technologies said it was looking at bitcoin mining sites in Quebec in light of expectations of a potential Chinese crackdown on cryptocurrency mining. State-controlled Enel, which owns a majority stake in Spanish utility Endesa, is one of Europe’s top renewable energy players …

Set to take effect on May 25, the regulations restrict what types of personal data the tech companies can collect, store and use across the 28-member European Union. Among their provisions, the rules enshrine the so-called right to be forgotten into European law so people can ask companies to remove …

Google, a unit of tech giant Alphabet, and Facebook are estimated to have taken half of online ad revenue worldwide in 2017 and more than 60 percent in the United States, according to research firm eMarketer. The anti-trust office said it was investigating the sector, and not individual firms. It would hold …

It will also launch more high-end PCs and smart devices such as its Mirage Solo virtual reality headset with Google’s Daydream technology that recently debuted at the CES trade show. Shares of Lenovo, a unit of Legend Holdings, dropped as much as 3 percent in morning trade against a 0.44 percent …